Frank Gardner, a BBC reporter who was working in Saudi Arabia last year, was shot six times at point-blank range. While now in a wheelchair, he's lucky compared to colleague Simon Cumbers, who was killed in the attack.

Here's an excerpt of his story:

He said he wanted to keep covering the "incredibly important" issue of security in the UK.

"You won't catch me padding around the back streets of Riyadh any more that's for sure, but I think there is a need to still explain the factors behind security and to analyse when we get these threats," he said.

He said he felt that the UK faced a "genuine threat" of a terror attack and that good security and detective work had helped prevent one.

Gardner and Mr Cumbers, 36, were attacked, apparently from a jeep, in a southern suburb of the city as they filmed the house of an al-Qaeda militant.

Gardner said he would have died within two hours had it not been for an expert team from the King Faisal Specialist Hospital.

After being treated in the Saudi hospital, he returned to a hospital in the UK last July.

He had 12 operations and spent eight months in hospital.

"I'm mentally fine, they didn't get to my head, he said. "But physically my circumstances are very changed."

To link to a story of Gardner describing the shooting, see this blog posting: Lucky to see another Christmas.